Underplayed Gems

The Star (2003)

The Star poster
Genre
reality television
Country
Thailand
Length
14 seasons
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How it feels

Contestants audition and perform in weekly concerts. Viewers vote by SMS to eliminate singers. Winners often become professional singers or actors in Thailand.

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What happens

The Star (Thai: เดอะสตาร์ ค้นฟ้าคว้าดาว) is a Thai reality television singing competition produced by Exact, a GMM Grammy company, and broadcast on Modernine TV. It was first broadcast on 7 October 2003 and its fifth season aired during the first half of 2009. It is one of two such television programmes in Thailand, the other being Academy Fantasia. Both feature a number of auditioned contestants competing in weekly concerts, with elimination determined by viewers' voting through SMS, but unlike the other, The Star does not feature continuous broadcasts of the contestants' lives in a common residence. A number of winners and runners-up from the contest have continued to become mainstream singers and/or actors under GMM Grammy, most notably Sukrit Wisetkaew ("Bie"), who was first runner-up in the show's third season. In 2016. GMM Grammy cancelled The Star after 12 seasons. Because the format of the program no longer matched the audience at that time. But 3 years after the hiatus, GMM Grammy (or now, The ONE Enterprise) was announced that The Star will come back in 2020 (postponed 1 years due to COVID-19 pandemic). However, rather than being the name The Star 13, the program was renewed under the name The Star Idol. As of 2026, The Star had 14 seasons, And there has been no official announcement yet whether it has been renewed or cancelled. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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